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Record Number: 13649


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. '

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1755 and 31 Dec 1803

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1755

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Wife/widow of a Church of Scotland Minister

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Laurence Sterne

Title:

[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

13649

Source:

Print

Author:

Anne Grant

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1807

Vol:

3

Page:

p.173

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 (London, 1807), 3, p. p.173, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13649, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Title identified from external source. Date range given as birth to date of letter.

   
   
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